European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes sunday october 26.1988 William Buckley Koop report directly addresses aids problem when do. Everett c. Koop who is the surgeon general of the United slates issues a report on sex education taking the position normally associated with he Perissi lists one draws Back from the conventional position and reflects. I there something to recommend sex education it pays to remember Hal or. Koop is no merely an . He is very much la moralist. Weil before he became the sur Geon Genera he earned up with the Rev. Francis Schaeffer the late theologian and produced a six hour documentary on he subject of abortion which in or. Koop s judgment is out and out murder. He is a practising Christ Ian and an evangelical and now he comes out for sex education of the kind generally opposed by moralists of or. Koop s persuasion what arc his arguments the 34-Page report issued by the sur Geon general of flick is the first that addresses directly the problem of aids. It begins by telling us something every newspaper Reader knows namely that the disease continues to spread and that the figures Are very discouraging. Fifteen thousand people Are dead of the disease already and 12 times that number will James Kilpatrick he dead of ii within five years. Now or. Koop did not need to Tell any informed american How to slow Down the spread of the disease to protect the uncontaminated thai s easy Don t use a Needle for drugs and Don t have sex except with  people. But the trouble with advice thai simple or. Koop is now saying is that we Are not talking about counsels of Angl list. We Are talking 10 use a phrase about How the world works. On the matter of intravenous infection Protection is As simple As using a Needle that in t infected and thai in t All that Dilt cull to do provided the Nee dle user Breaks out of the hypnotic allure of Needle sharing and insists on using hygienic vehicle for his Poison. In the matter of sex the Best Protection against infection right now barring abstinence writes or. Koop is use of a  so therefore teach children to use condoms. We got that right ? no no no teach children not to have sex. Or. Koop the moralist would say but Ihnn Leach the that should they fall into the temptation of doing so they should use a condom. What or. Koop opposes is silence on he subject. This silence must end. We can no longer afford to sidestep Frank open Dis Cussion about sexual practices Homo sexual and heterosexual. Education about aids should Start at an Early age so that children can grow up knowing the Behaviours to avoid to protect themselves from exposure to the aids  one greets such advice so apparently reasoned and compelling Wilh residual reservations. To begin with we know that there seems to be a negative Correla Tion Between sex education and pregnancies. The great scandinavian Experiment which is now Over a generation old has brought to that part of the world not Only sex education but an increase in pregnancies among children. It might be argued that there would be still More pregnancies but for the sex education but or. Koop does not appear to be saying the equivalent thing in respect of  says that if the sex education he favors were undertaken one might save 14,000 lives by 1991. Surely there is something to be said for the stimulation of a National habit. I can think of one that is gradually taking hold namely the use of the scat Belt in some Stales it is now compulsory though my own experience is that some people use a scat Belt and others do not and there is Little correspondence be tween the use of it where it is required and where it is not required. If children were Laughl thai All other considerations to one Side the condom should always be associated with sex even As the safety Belt should always be associated with driving some Progress of the kind  seeks could be expected. There is abundant evidence that the mature homosexual Community is so to speak scat Belt oriented nowadays in a sense that it was most definitely not even year or so Back. But to teach the condom and to go the logical step further of supplying the con Dom for the Sake of the Young inflamed who have not thought to bring along their owns arguably to induce an to Moshere in which the scandinavian analogy becomes directly relevant. If he utilitarian emphasis is stressed it May Well be at the expense of the ethical emphasis which returns us to the ques Tion of which of the two should take precedence among teachers and parents. Kissinger s low9 ignored of Reykjavik Summit the trouble with Reykjavik was that the two principals failed to abide by Kissinger s  thai diplomatic axiom fashioned by Henry Kissinger from the legacy left by Talleyrand May be summarized a follows before two Heads of state sit Down 10 talk it them be prepared to slant  during his career As Secretary of slate Kissinger look a Cool View of sum Mitry. He had a Good Deal of Confidence in president Nixon s ability 10 Lake care of himself in the ring but even so professionals As a Breed mistrust amateurs As a Breed and Henry was Ever the consummate pro. He believed in preparation preparation preparation. Once Kissinger told a lunch Eon guest the Story of two european ambassadors who met at the Border Between their hostile nations. If my government were to propose this Hal and the other thing asked the first Diplomat what would be the response of your government if your government were to make such a proposal came the reply my government would respond in this fashion. Whereupon the first ambassador produced a letter of intention and the second ambassador whipped from his pocket a reply and their principals subsequently Sal Down at a Summit. They were prepared at the outset to stand up at the end. There was no Wiy the meeting Ai Reykjavik be tween president Reagan  could be camouflaged. It was variously described As a min i Sumril or a pre Summit or even a  hokum it was a Summit meeting if there Ever was one and Kissinger s Law should have been respected. The two adversaries should have discovered through the preliminary mazes of private diplomacy that Ine president s strategic defense initiative ski was an absolute Barrier to a Public pronouncement on Aims reduction. For want of such preparation the meeting wound up in disarray. Reykjavik said one of the to pundits will be widely viewed As a keen  widely viewed perhaps but not universally viewed. Some of us who believe devoutly in dramatic arms reduction arc much More concerned with the end than with the Means. We Are sceptical justifiably Skepi Cal of formal treaties accords agreements and protocols Wilh the soviet Union. Civilized nations May be honorable bound by ribbons and bows and sealing Wax but the Kremlin views up Natilio with scorn. The Helsinki accords remember them were signed Wilh great solemnity and pomp but the Ink had not dried before the soviet Union lore that pretty package to shreds. This is not to discount the usefulness of getting something in writing it is merely to suggest thai we not gel so absorbed Wilh form thai we lose sight of tub stance. The object is not to get an agreement the object is to reduce the infernal weapons of nuclear warfare by half and then by half again. A elaborate treaty adorned with legalistic curl cues is not necessarily the Best or Only mechanism to achieve that end. To insist upon such a formality is to risk getting pricked on what Warwick described in Henry Vias these Nice Sharp Quillett of the  who was disappointed by the outcome at Reykjavik doubtless the two principals Felt deflated but this too will pass. The failure to come up with a document that could be toasted in Washington next year was not a catastrophic failure. By  his resolve on ski the president May even have improved the prospects for significant Anas reduction not now but perhaps in months to come. The basis for a Mutual understanding if not for a lawyers contract emerged from the snows of Iceland on the key matter of strategic defense the president it plainly on. Sound ground. His program of research development and testing threatens no one. His offer a postpone actual deployment for 10 Yean u Truon Able offer subject to contingencies that no one Cut foresee we have to assume that inc soviets Are deeply engaged in parallel research and development of their own. They see a race to devise a stronger shield As race to hone still sharper swords Bui both std agree Hal their Isordi Are Sharp enough now. The opposing nuclear arsenals Are quite simply obscene. Each super Power has the capacity to reduce the other to smolder us embed. But let us be of Good cheer. The abortive ill pre pared meeting at Reykjavik brought it no closer to the Brink of armageddon. Reagan and Gorbachev May not have reached an agreement of minds but they gamed some Uri Derit Ndini of a dub of Wilh. Nothing Ven tured nothing gained. Let it go a that